Mirror Man (David Thomas album)

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Mirror Man
Studio album by David Thomas and the Pale Orchestra
Released	June 1999
Genre	Rock
Label	Thirsty Ear
Producer	David Thomas
David Thomas and the Pale Orchestra chronology
Monster (1997) Mirror Man (1999) Bay City (2009)

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Mirror Man is the title of a "rogue opera" conceived and orchestrated by David Thomas, as well as an album recording of the first act of that piece. The piece draws many lyrical and imagistic threads from Thomas' entire recorded legacy, as well as relying to a large degree on improvisation and the personalities of its participants. The cast is typically large and diverse, featuring actors, poets and singers supported by a core musical group (based around Thomas' regular collaborators the Two Pale Boys). Set in an abstract highway landscape among anonymous all-night coffee shops, bus stops, roadside detritus, apocryphal road signs, and flickering streetlights, Mirror Man is (according to Thomas) "about places that don't exist and a collection of stories about the people who live there -- abandoned by the future, forbidden access to the past, and set adrift in a mirage-like Now". [1]